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I'll be honest, your visual aid isn't helping me much, it might be one of those things where it makes a lot more sense to the guy already imagining the arena.
Are you saying they're connecting in a big cross road shape? With a blob in the middle and a blob at each compass point?
No, I'm saying they aren't connecting at all. it is indeed a compass shape, but each blob is separated by essentially air.
Take five pennies.
Set one in what would be the center, set the others an equal distance away from it in each of the cardinal directions. That's essentially the battlefield.
If I were on my computer, I'd draw a rather crude image of it, but my girlfriend is watching OITNB.
Would it help If I wrote up a mock post? Also, you can go and add in how much bigger your blob got with the change as well, otherwise it'll be the size of the unchanged blob.